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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps (Ichneumonoidea) » Ichneumonid Wasps (Ichneumonidae) » Cryptinae » Cryptini » Baryceratina » Baryceros » Baryceros texanus
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Ichneumon Wasp - Baryceros texanus
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Ichneumon Wasp - Baryceros texanus
Valley Water Mill, Greene County, Missouri, USA
September 24, 2016
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Contributed by Scrapinator on 25 September, 2016 - 9:49pm
Last updated 23 November, 2020 - 9:09pm

Moved
Moved from Cryptinae.
… Jonathan Hoskins, 23 November, 2020 - 9:09pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 26 September, 2016 - 5:31pm login or register to post comments

Cryptinae (female)…
See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 25 September, 2016 - 10:18pm login or register to post comments

 
I wondered if this wasn't a m
I wondered if this wasn't a male Banded Caterpillar Parasite Wasp - Ichneumon promissorius. This is a native species from Australia imported to Maryland to attack a crop pest, Helicoverpa zea. I can't find any photographs of it from the US.

See a photograph at http://www.saveourwaterwaysnow.com.au/01_cms/details_pop.asp?ID=927
… Bob Kipfer, 1 October, 2016 - 4:47pm login or register to post comments

 
If Ross is right about the subfamily, then it couldn't be.
I. promissorius is in Ichneumoninae.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 1 October, 2016 - 4:57pm login or register to post comments

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